I finally upgraded to iTunes 7, because my scroll bar in the music store wasn't working anymore, no matter how many times I rebooted the machine. I figured it was a nice way of Apple making me upgrade, by disabling my scroll bar.

I hate upgrading.

And so, iTunes 7 is installed, and so far so good... until I try to transfer some podcasts to my iPod. The podcasts are on the iPod, I can access them when the iPod isn't connected to the computer, but I can't access them from inside iTunes itself. Which means, for those of you following along at home, that I can't delete them from the iPod.

Wha'fuck?

Now, since I am an idiot, I didn't backup iTunes 6 before I installed 7, so the most recent version I've got is 4, which I have re-installed so as to be able to get podcasts off the iPod... but I've also got 7 as well now, because 4 won't let me access the music store, so I can't update my podcasts without 7.

So.

Does anyone know of a safe place to re-download version 6? Apple doesn't seem to have it at their site anymore, and I don't want to get it from just anywhere online... who knows what might have been added to the original files?

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Squish, I'm not sure why it didn't automatically transfer all your stuff, but it should be possible to sync the iPod podcasts with your iTunes library -- I didn't have a problem doing it. I wonder.... How old is the softwear on your iPod?

Ah, two things: I don't want to automatically sync it, since I have more podcasts than space on the iPod, and also, I am still using my old 15 gig iPod... which is probably old enough to be whacking out with the new software.

You don't have to auto-sync it. You can set what you want top update and then choose the option for syncing with the iPod from the file menu. Have you tried transferring purchased music/files? There is a command for that as well....

I don't know the answer to the stated question, but my recommendation would be to do a "restore" on the iPod and see if that helps. It's roughly like formatting it, so you'll lose whatever's on there, but it should clean up any weird/errant behaviour.